Top Hat Books

We publish fiction that captures the contrasts, the achievements, the optimism and the radicalism of ordinary and extraordinary times across the world. We’re open to all time periods and we strive to go beyond the narrow, foggy slums of Victorian London. Where are the tales of the people of fifteenth-century Australasia? The stories of eighth-century India? The voices from Africa, Arabia, cities and forests, deserts and towns? Our books thrill, excite, delight and inspire.

It Must Be The Smith In Me

Satirizing Trump

One could say that the American political situation is absurd: The President of the United States is an incompetent, lying, racist, narcissistic bully. That was both my challenge and my delight as I set out to write a satire about him.

The insatiable consumers: why are we so obsessed with zombies?

With the exponential success of The Walking Dead and the longevity of George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead film franchise, the appeal of zombie fiction continues to stagger, lurch and bite its way into the public’s consciousness.